Welcome to the Rock Deformation Laboratory (RDL) website. The RDL has been operative since 2018, and it is the house of scientists interested in understanding “chemo-physical-geo-processes”. RDLers are interested in many aspects of geosciences and often devise state-of-the-art instruments and methodologies to push the boundary of knowledge.

At UT RDL we study nature and we use any available method to understand it further, here is an inspirational science video

…with the help of a spyglass devised by him, he discovered about the face of the Moon, fixed stars, Milky Way, nebulous stars, but especially, about four planets…
– Galileo Galilei – Sidereus Nuncius